Ohio · Nonprofit
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,190 to it, the largest being CORKY & RICK STEINER FAMILY FOUNDATION PHILIP H STEINERJOSEPH STEINERTRUSTEES ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $74k
What Ensemble Theatre of Cleveland does
Mission
Ensemble theatre is dedicated to the responsible production of works that celebrate the human spirit drawn from the rich canon of modern american classics as well as other significant contemporary plays. Ensemble serves greater cleveland and the midwest region by reintroducing the classics, examining them with new eyes, and supporting the development of new works for the american theater.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The theater is committed to non-traditional casting and to providing culturally diverse programming that speaks to issues of contemporary life. Education and outreach activities, engage youth and local community members through on site programming, residencies, and touring performances. Ensemble theatre believes that the arts are an essential and meaningful part of life. The theatre offers an important forum for stimulating and provoking thought about the issues of contemporary life, and it is a place for communal experience. Introducing future generations to the arts will enlighten them about the human condition and provide them with a resource to nourish them throughout their lives. All art, including theatre, should be a celebration of diversity and human dignity. Ensemble adheres to a credo with a policy of non-traditional, casting. This is the use of actors of any race, sex, ethnicity or degree of disabilities in roles for which such factors are not germane to the development of stage characters or the play. The theatre provides the highest possible level of professionalism in all areas to nurture new talent, and to be ever mindful of the power of art to entertain and move…
$148,323 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $148,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $57k to $151k (+165%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Anne Blum
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $18k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
61% of ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND?
- ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,190 to it, the largest being CORKY & RICK STEINER FAMILY FOUNDATION PHILIP H STEINERJOSEPH STEINERTRUSTEES ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $101,190 in grants to ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND?
- CORKY & RICK STEINER FAMILY FOUNDATION PHILIP H STEINERJOSEPH STEINERTRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing